O Lord, Jesus
Christ – You always reward Your faithful servants, not only with special gifts
of Your love, but also with the eternal reward of the saints in heaven, and in
many cases You grant them the recognition of sanctity by Your Church here on
earth. We humbly pray: grant that Your faithful servant Metropolitan Andrey be
numbered among the saints. Throughout his just life, "full of suffering
and trials," he was a good shepherd for his flock and a great laborer for
Christian unity.
And through
his beatification and intercession, grant our entire people the great gift of
unity and love. Amen.